• CBRE Closes SNF Loan in Utah

    Jason Stein and DJ Elefant of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance platform closed an acquisition loan for a skilled nursing facility in Utah. CBRE worked with a local Utah lender to arrange a $6.426 million loan that featured a 10-year term and a competitive 5.72% interest rate with no prepayment penalty. The loan came out to 75% LTC. Read More »
  • Knapp-Stahler Group Executes Speedy Sale

    With a state-imposed operator transition deadline approaching, a regional owner successfully sold its 83-unit assisted living/memory care community in Chico, California, to another regional owner/operator with the help of Chad Mundy and Nick Stahler of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. Built in 2001, Windchime of Chico features... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Nine-Figure Deal in Oregon

    A couple of seniors housing communities in the Portland, Oregon MSA, sold to a joint venture between a blue-chip national private equity investor and a respected West Coast-based owner/operator. Opened in 2016 and 2019, the two communities total 284 independent living, assisted living and memory care communities in highly affluent,... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Two Seniors Transactions in Ohio

    Blueprint recently handled two transactions in Ohio. First, Conner Doherty and Ryan Kelly facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in a desirable market in Ohio. The not-for-profit seller was The Heritage Retirement Community. Built in 2000, The Belvedere of Westlake comprises 24 assisted living and nine memory care units in Westlake.... Read More »
  • Invesque Shareholders to Vote on Two Proposals

    Invesque has called a special shareholder meeting for June 18, 2025, where shareholders will vote on two proposals. First, they will consider enabling Invesque’s board to sell or lease substantially all of the company’s assets through one or more transactions. That could include direct asset sales, the sale of subsidiary equity, mergers, or other... Read More »
The Welltower Census Decline

The Welltower Census Decline

Welltower’s seniors housing partners continue to suffer from census declines and operating costs. We do appreciate the transparency that Welltower has been providing investors, but boy does it provide a window onto what is happening. In its monthly update, Welltower informed us that it suffered its worst monthly census decline since May. December’s SHOP occupancy fell 100 basis points from November, compared with -70 basis points in November and -170 basis points in May. With the pandemic spreading, census dropped another 85 basis points to just 75.3% as of January 15. Not looking forward to everyone’s fourth quarter earnings calls. Move-ins were the lowest in six months, and... Read More »
Blueprint Announces Two SNF Deals

Blueprint Announces Two SNF Deals

Two Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors teams helped a couple of institutional owners divest or find new tenants for their senior care assets. Michael Segal and Gideon Orion first represented a REIT in the re-leasing of its 143-bed skilled nursing facility in San Antonio, Texas. Built in 1967 about 15 minutes north of downtown, the facility maintained a four-star rating from CMS, the highest in the area. Despite three regional hospitals within 10 miles of the facility and its enrollment in the state’s QIPP managed Medicaid program, the SNF struggled with census.   Part of a larger portfolio owned by the REIT and operated under a master lease structure with the... Read More »
Newmark Sells Major SNF Portfolio

Newmark Sells Major SNF Portfolio

Last week we wrote that Newmark (formerly Newmark Knight Frank) was going to have a big fourth quarter. And they have, with five sales transactions worth well in excess of $400 million, plus a few financings, and we still have a few weeks to go before the end of the year.  The largest sale, which we previously reported on, was the six communities in Massachusetts that sold for about $200 million in a recap of the portfolio previously owned by Welltower. Most recently (early December), however, was one of the larger skilled nursing portfolio sales of the year. With nine facilities and 1,014 beds in Virginia, this portfolio was sold for just over $150,000 per... Read More »
Newmark Strikes Again, and Again

Newmark Strikes Again, and Again

We had reported a few months ago that Newmark (formerly Newmark Knight Frank) was going to have a big fourth quarter. And they have, with five sales transactions worth well in excess of $400 million, plus a few financings, and we still have a few weeks to go before the end of the year, and a few more deals.  The largest sale this quarter, which we previously reported on, was the six communities in Massachusetts that sold for about $200 million in a recap of the portfolio previously owned by Welltower. Most recently (early December), however, was one of the larger skilled nursing portfolio sales of the year. Details will be available soon, but let’s just say it will be... Read More »
Senior Care Stocks Stay High After Vaccine News

Senior Care Stocks Stay High After Vaccine News

After Pfizer’s vaccine announcement on November 9, pretty much every publicly traded senior care provider and REIT saw their share prices jump significantly. We believe that much of the exuberance was mainly from the removal of uncertainty surrounding both the vaccine and the election, but as we said earlier this month, it is not like no one thought a vaccine would not be available in the months ahead. And there was still the fact that the Pfizer vaccine needs to go through the FDA approval process, not to mention manufacturing tens of millions of doses, and then distributing them.  But we also wondered if investors had gotten a little ahead of themselves,... Read More »